Broken Homes Need Church Fathers
The Church must act and intercede on behalf of broken homes, for single-parent homes are connected with higher rates of substance abuse, criminality, suicide, and poverty.
100% Proof Spirits? G.K. Chesterton and Belief in Ghosts
The fact that seasonal stories of spooks and specters are now spoken of in terms of “proof” and “evidence,” not simple “belief” and “faith,” is symptomatic of a wider spiritual malaise in our society—one first spotted by G.K. Chesterton over a century ago.
Praying for Pope Francis
I am powerless to argue matters over with the Holy Father. But I’m not completely powerless, because I can pray.
Sentimentalists Go to Rome
Last month’s Synod was pervaded with sentimentality, which glossed over the ugly realities it was seeking to condone.
Rearranging the Synod Table Chairs
The Synod was a series of fixations on matters of utter inconsequence, rather like the deck hands busily arranging chairs on the Titanic before its final plunge into the sea.
Living in Lantua
Dystopia doesn’t judge as much as it observes and predicts. If we do A, then B will happen. Hence, dystopia has come to be a means of critiquing society in a way that gets past our ideological barriers.
Our Emersonian Pontiff
Is clerical haberdashery really such a problem that it merits a prominent place in the pope’s intervention in a synod as overhyped as the one concluding in Rome these days?
The War of the Worlds: Faith vs. Cowardice
Though typically memorialized as one of the earliest exemplars of the science-fiction genre, “War of the Worlds” offers a biting commentary on the futility and uselessness of the theologically-inclined, and especially clerics.
Missive to Magnesia
St. Ignatius of Antioch implores the good Christians of Magnesia not “to be led astray by wrong views or by outmoded tales that count for nothing.”
Catholic College Sociologists Promote Hamas
Thousands of university sociologists, including Catholic ones, recently signed a letter defending the Oct. 7th Hamas attack as a “struggle for freedom.”
A Buyer’s Market in Catholic Real Estate
In recent decades, the decline of the Church has resulted in the closure and sale of a host of Catholic real estate: churches, convents, monasteries, schools, and rectories.
Do Synod Doubters Really Trust the Holy Spirit?
History has demonstrated that the Holy Spirit has a way of confounding conventional expectations.
The Treasured Past Is the Future
A revival of the Church will come in the restoration of Catholic culture.
The Roots of Our Disrespect for Life
Contraception precipitates abortion. To be against abortion but silent on contraception is like being against racism but silent on bigotry.
The Universal Call to Lassitude
While skeptics these days are emboldened and made popular by the lemming-like suicide of our culture, for any properly catechized person, the skeptics’ superficiality and lack of common sense points back to the Faith.
The Guilty Pleasures of Violence
Are we letting our video-game mentality toward violence, rather than a Catholic view, affect how we want to respond to real-world violence?
Diálogo de Sordos: Catholic Discussion of the Immigration Chaos
Some have accused the Church of being complicit in creating the broken mess of the immigration system. That is like blaming the staff of the emergency room attending gunshot victims for the violence in the streets.
Blessing a Sterile Parody
Same-sex unions are not even unions, only a parody, both sad and sterile, of a relation that is not real.
An Irish Oasis of Adoration
Silverstream Priory, consisting of traditional Benedictines with a special charism of perpetual adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, helps point us to the importance of a Eucharistic Revival.